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® county, 40 when ever possible estab» youth
. ers of this school were:
“on. the school’s bad boy.
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Vol. Vill, No. 88 The County Seat Paper
\Nevada City Nugget
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NEVADA CITY, CALI FORNIA
ASE CREE RSL SP ETD
The GOLD =a MONDAY, SEPT. 17, 1934
Forest Fire Fighter
Dies in Death Trap
e
fire at Chalk Bluff yesto which’the National Forest
140 men and thé'state
outside this city, 18 jand
the first fatality of”
+
The fores
rer
Shei in charge
camp, also
near his life .
now at.the Jones Memorial
hospital in Grass Valley in
condition
Chalk Bluff, the site of hydraulic
' operations in early days, rises abrupt-,;
ly from a small canyon.
‘the wind the
' flames this small canyon, which
was filled with second growth timber.
The men were hemmed in on all sides
by the raging inferno of flames
utterly ‘unable to climb. the
. bank.
ire. Warden,
of t} m the state
ervice sent came losing
camp just
resulted
“this season.
IMC.
in fire
George Dewey Nicholson,
burned to death.
thirty-eight year old, the son of
of sel .
city, was He was
Mrs.
and
A change. in
course
Louisa'Nicholson, was.born here
sided here all his
turned of the
had 1
Whe
Hooper
will
life, up
remains are. at
Funeral Home.
held
) y
the HolmesAn inquest
‘this eight
in Grass !
evening
Holmes
be at and
o'clock
Valley.
Coroner steep
George Howe, assis William Besides his mother Georoge Nich. Olson is survived by several brothers
{and sisters, among them Henry Nichtent to
‘olson, .a. sheriff in one of Nevada
SCi 1001 BEL. L poe counties, and Alfred Nicholson
COLUMBIA HILL
ae .
fire
ning. About four hundred acres
were burned over according to the
report of Fire Warden Sharp.
Superintendent R. L. P. Bigelow
‘feels that emphasis should be stressed on the fact thatthe’ fire was of
incendiary origin. It caused the
. death of a good’man and the serious
injury to another. The incendiary is
always potentially a murderer.
spoUEit under douneal early last eveFor the first time in-ten years the .
school bell at Columbia Hill is ringing. Ringing in. the same old school
with the same call to
This time it is}
and
.
i
house
.
as of yore.
calling about ten pupils but in the
a critical }
RATTLER MAKES HAPPY
HOME IN WOODSHED,
Miss Peggy Hoffman, one of the
qc. K., staff, declares that it
to be-very chilly
rother
shed at .
IH xg all
P
has
&
‘pefore she or
her b vill go into the woodtheir pretty home, 420
Mars) street, Grass Valley, to
. olan) up a few sticks of wood to
ii keep the home fires burning.
they stop,
around the
pole, then.
they seize}
dash out .
{
.
.
.
.
i
a
. When they do go in,
look and
woodpile
with
listen,
with
a lightning
three or four
prod
a long
. dash,
sticks and
again.
The re
snake
ason is that biz
his
a raitle
made
in the woodshed.
Nevada
this. way. Bue
has happy. home.
troubled
in Grass Valicy .
rattlesnakes from time to time do
try a come-back.
Once before, according to Pegzy .
Hoffman, a wood: dealer
in the winter supply, handed the
family a baby rattler concealed in
an armful of: wood, and this infant
reptile grew to, be a big fellow
with several rattles, before he finally disappeared. :
The present tenant of the woodshed has never exhibited his rattlers but he does tune up along
about noon. Any little disturbance during the warmer hours of
the day and he lets off: his alarm.
In fact the family prefers that he
do this and then they know
whether it is safe to lay in a supCity is never
tossing .
old days the presiding pedagogue reigned over 60 or 70 youngsters ranging in years from five to nineteen.
Some of them who so nimbly danced
to the rythmn of the hickory stick
are among our most prominent citizens, and many a tale there is tu be
gleaned if you can get them in a reminiscent mood. Among our notables
who have attended the Columbia Hil!
The fire started in the old diggings
near Chalk Bluff and covered 250
acres of privately owned land ane
crossed the Brady ranch at You Bet,
but all the buildings were saved.
FIRES FLARE AT COLUMBIA HILL
At two o’clock the word was phon,
ed to'the Tahoe National Forest .
. headquarters in Nevada City that .
school are: George Calanaun, . three fires had just started near CoO’Neil, Dan Coughlan, Vincent llumbia Hill flaring up one after the;
ley, Horace Curnow, Supervisor i,. other in quick succession as if they
B. Dudley, J. P. Coughlan, of San!had been set by an incendiary. .
Francisco, assistant president of it Superintendent R. L. P. Bigelow }
®. G. & E. Among the former teach. took charge at once and men are be.
M. B. Prock ing dispatched to care for
of Grass Valley, the late A. D. Gass. outbreak.
away, Wm. Gray, the
Emma Wolf and the former
John
‘th
€
the new.
‘
former Miss .
ma Vlewelly. The former Paehe : ae MOTOR CARS CRASH
ON GAULT BRIDGE .
have a.story. to tell on the other. !
Sun REEREEEEEEEEeihaEeeeenem
.
Here’s one on George Calanan:
» feorge was delegated by the presid.
ing pedagogue.to go out and cut some
good stout switches, these to be used
A traffic
night at nine
. bridge,
accident happened last
o'clock on the Gault,
involving a 1927 Chevrolet
. Soups driven. by Ray Wilde,
; City “high school boy, ‘and a
driven by a man from Lincoln.
Ray Wilde, with Dick Stevens
his sole companion in the car, was
coming down the hill past Polglaze’s.
Just he turned into the bridge
his car’s front end caught: the other
car’s rear end, thus swinging the Lincoln car around so that it struck the
western rail of the bridge,
the .rather flimsy
foot out of
The rear
Nevada
.George was reluctantly and ver:
thoughtfully cutting the switches an
along came Charlie Paine.
helpful mood Charlie
by stacking the switches as George
cut them. George did’nt notice that
as Charlie stacked each switch, he,
with his knife, cut. rings
around the switches, said circies not
being visable in the bark.
ithered up the switches
them reluctantly. to the
that difficult
and delicate job was completed.
The ly
lay them on the waiting’ tulprit,
lo! fell into a thousaty
car
in @ most
as
began helping
as
sharp
= Eee hn
knocking
George g%
anid
railing about aj
delivered
line.
teacher with a sigh a
the Lincoln
fenders bent
of
vas broken, and the
ihe other car,
No
axle car
iF
%
.
.
fe
.
.
.
. on
teacher immediate began -t
when . one was hurt. C Officer W:
the switches 1) Fouyer was atthe scene the
ly
of acei-> .
pieces. . Just what happened to our dent after it happened. short
CLUB ROOMS REOPENED .
UNDER NEW MANAGEMENT
Alla .
present
,onorable councilman
imagine.
city
buried
phy at this point,
you can!
.
Charlie . ¢
gt
said that
Paine his nose in his 10LTE
Superintendent, Mrs.
the
school, which is in the Cherokee dis.
trict; as an emetgency school, with
Miss Olga Owens, Truckeef as teacher. Mrs. Austin is making every effort to give the best that California
has to to child in the
County.
.
Pp ; .
Austin has established “My
the Passt
Thursdays
ect ‘me arty known
Club, being opened
Ted ‘owner and
operator. Extensive alterations have
been made and much new equipment
has been added by Mr. Janiss. The
front of the establishment has been
completely changed. Mr. Janiss extends a hearty invitation to come in
and visit his ‘‘My Place’’ and get acquainted. There will also be a lunch
counter for his patrons service.
BLACK WIDOW BITES
GIRL IN OAK VALLEY .
CAMPTONVILLE,
Lynch}, of Oak , was. bitten by
a black widow spider on the back of
meeting and greet the members and the hand a few days ago, ane now
visitors with a short talk, after {recovering from the ordeal. She forwhich there will be a program. Mrs. tunately had serum and treatment a8
O. McCraney will give a book revue; hand for this emergency and adminMrs. Christian Anderson, chairman, ]istered first aid immediately. She
will play two mandolin selections and ,vras quite sick for three days but now
there i to be another good number . feels no bad effects from the bite.
onthe program. All parents and
i f the school are invited to
ne fea reception. Refreshments } #5 Sunday guests, Mr. and Mrs. T.
will be served atthe close of the} DuHaone and son,‘ Thomas Jr., of
neh Do ee
lace: as
ime is
by Janiss,
offer every
lishes these emergency schools as the
need .arises.
RECEPTION FOR GRAMMAR
SCHOOL TEACHERS FRIDAY
The P. T. A. is giving a reception
and program Friday afternoon at the
school from three to four
in honor of the teachers. Mrs. Leland Smith, president, will open the
Sept. 17.—Babe
zrammar ae grammi Valier
Mr. and Mrs. James F. Dolan had
‘hold a charity card party in the beau-~
. O'Neil on Friday afternoon.
; ciation,
. pose,
. for a new shaft.
ply of wood against the chill of
morning and evenings. Mrs. Lidyard, Miss Hoffman’s mother, has
seen the serpent’s big ugly. head,
once or twice.
“Someday,’’ says Miss Hoffman,
“we are going: to get that fellow.’’
IRATE MAN WITH
RIFLE DISTURBS .
The
growing
peace of Willow Valley
suburb Nevada City,
many miners employed in es
Murchie mine make their
of
where
homes, I
been sadly disturbed of late by
and threatening de
Wiltiam
Nhaugh
1Vvifle shots smeanor
and after
subsided,
of Ehaugh,
had apparettly Dy
a gunsmith testing his workmans shiy
at all hours on the
i shi sorh hood of the Murchie.
First
man who
disturbance was Ebaugh,
wears long hair
sometime’ has
Ss, and for the
ers been
tz
'
j
j
{
.
.
ling in the neighborhood. The
mination of
eri ing
who
rage on: the
eized his rifle
part. of Ebaugh
woods
.
.
.
Plaint late Thursday evening
!
;Prehend Ebaugh,
; armed with both revolver and rifle,
{but found him in a defiant mood.
Ebaugh ‘complained bitterly of
treatment in the neighborhood
refused to surrender.
and
watch for the man.
Ebaugh, a relative of the Sherm
been an inmate of a state asylum.
Thursday night while Sheriff Carter and
for him, leavi ing their car by
roadside, a fisherman returning late,
paused by the sheriff's car. Only a;
few paces away
Ebaugh, who,
‘ELKS WILL GIVE
GARDEN PARTY
Nevada City Lodge of Elks will
blank, the
A gas bomb, whiich Carter
ally able to explode close to Ebaugh,
appeared in the brush.
some form of dementia.
and Mrs. John
The af.
fair will be open to the public, the
' proceeds will be turned over to the
. Biks Charity Fund. Besides the
Laied games the guests will have the
pleasure of enjoying the charming
setting of the O’Neil gardens which
are beautifully adapted to such an
tiful gardens of Mr.
Ebaugh is, reported to have stffered a blow upon the head whe
boy from which he has never:
ered.
‘MISS CATHERINE PARSONS}
BRIDE OF HAROLD BISHOP:
affair. The lawns, shade
trees and the gay
colorfnl background for
green
flowers making a
the ladies.
HIGH SCHOOLP.T.A.
WILL BE ORGANIZED
oh group of iathare of high school .
students, are loping
High School Parent Teachers Asso;
and. are inviting ‘all parents,
the students
at}
teachers and friends of
to meet this afternoon at 4 \p. m.
the high school auditorium.
Officers the Third District
State Parent. and Teacher Organization will be present to explain purto
youths
of ol
be;
isn .
and advantages
gained Nevada City
having a local chapter.
It requested that all
. sibly can come to this inforinal meet.
ainys,
for
is who pos-;
ing whether they plan to Join or wot.
Those who ‘ia the
ganization of the high school P.
A., this evening arrived this afternoon. They are: Mrs. Henry Web\
ber, of Colfax, president of the Ne.
vada-Placer P. T. A., and first vice
president of the third district of California; Mrs. W. EB. Wade, of: Colfax,
second vice president of the NevadaPlacer council; Mrs. R. M. Hughes a
visitor from Colfax; Mrs. E. T. Stoll,
of Sacramento, taking the place of
Mrs. Bevil, of Sacramento, the state’s
\ third district organizer; and Mrs. W.
H. Wilson, of Sacramento, chairman
of the finance and budget committee
of the third district.
or™ 18
a!
will assist
“MURCHIE: MINE
reports are thai
PRODUCING
Latest
crews are taking out
at present
all levels In the Murchie nine, east of Nevada City. A raise is about half
completed between the 400 and 800
foot levels, in the company’s plans
On the 1600 foot
level, sinking is being done to prepare for a pump that will be used in
the bottom of the new shaft. George
Kervin is superigtendent of the
ore on
meeting. ' Sacramdnto. ¥
.
to organize al!
'of Cambridge in tlre beautiful’ Ej
.pal marriage service.
i white
i slippers.
(and
Miss Catherine Aes aan Parsons
thre of Mr. Harold
Whitney Bishop ‘on Saturday Septembecame bride
berS) at: four p.i0.,.at the Wyman }
Memorial church of St. Andrew
! Marblehead, Massachusetts. Rev.
in
toy
the chureh
Dunen,
yrindy, rector of
sisted Archdeacon Ernest J.
MI, aspiscoThe bride
and large
hat' and carried .a@ colonial boquet
The maid of
Dride, Miss
York: City:
with
wore a gown of white
white
of
a
face chiffore and
a
roses. honor,
the Reatrice
Spring, New
white chiffon
figures
The
Ruth = «© Lindqnist,
Mass., and Miss Shirley’ Putnan,
(Springfield, Mass., yellow
gandie and carried colorful
tn. the pastel shades. The
maids were classmates and sorority
cousim of
of wore. a
gown and
and
STS
bat and
Miss
brown brown
two bridesmaids,
of Longmeadcw,
_wore
boquets
bridessisters of the bride at Massachusetts
i
Kunear, . state cotlege. Mr. Kenneth
a class mate-of the groom at Massachusetts State acted as best mai. Mr.
Mr. Malcome Ober, of Marblehead,
Frank Bishop, of Springfield.
were ushers.
LATE VICTOR GIANI
IS BORNE TO REST
Funeral services were held for the
(late Victor Giani at the Holmes Funeral parlors at two o'clock this afternoon. Members of Corte Christopher, of which deceased was a member, attended. Interment was held
at Pine Grove Cemetery.
Victorio was a native of Trontana,
Italy, born in 1879. For the past 30
years he has been engaged as a miner
in this district. Much of this time
was spent in Sierra county. For the
past three yearg he has been in very
poor health. He is survived by three
brothers, which are of thig city, and
property, é two in Italy,
i
»
. WELCOW VALLEY
ia tast .
%
tbs
J
ridge in the nei2
and whiskarget of ill considered jest.and teaséul.
this torment was a tow,
and took to the’
Sheriff Carter responded to a com.
anal
‘with his deputies endeavored to ap.
On Friday he was .
, able to speak with the man, who was
his
Several deputies have been assisting in keeping
Heckers, rane with them. He has
his deputies were looking .
the} that work on the airport will’ begin .
across the road was! ingthe north’ runway will be done by
apparently thinking . SERA labor.
the sheriff had returned, fired point . Boei
bullet passing so elose the‘ made a careful survey of the field,
fisherman felt the wind on his face, !
was fin!
failed to have any effect. Ebacgh dis-! . airplanes. .
The man is .
now betieved to be suffering from .
MN @+an appropriation from the state
recov. get to improve the Yuba: Pass high. ;
. HOGE 300 FOOT LEVEL
ARCHDEACON OFFICIATES .
fers in the next day or sO.
} mine om the 800 foot level where STRENGTH OF NEVADA
finents last year and even a greater
of . interest
or. tournament.
}
—_~—— wi
Deer Hunters Lucky .
On Sunday Opening
sroup of Nevada Gity
friends . from)
San .
t
i
\
A
two
men with . the honor
Cecil
of killing the
Curtis,
buck
Nevada. City
boy, killed a nicé two point buck in
the Drum) district. He is expected in
Nevada City ‘today to visit with relaLivermore, five former
from taiael and two from Coe .
twenty two in all, went ona
hunt in the Omega mine
They left
lumbia,
(deer
'
{
}
.
.
; ;
a district.
H
j
.
t
Nevada four
had . group of
them . killed a three
. Lead, or old
Relief Hill.
W.
a
City about
o'clock Sunday Sz morning.
that
for
They Franciseo hunters
at the Blue
digzings near
mn
luck
went back today {
They
one shot by
such good some of point buck
more deer. Malakoff
brought three
Paul Bake
sh and one
in yesterday, .
Paul
sen. . kk
Bb. Kendrick
illed
county ye
Beg eae
r, one by ai id Jim Stephens
point buck in. Sierra
sterday which weighed. 120
1
j by Carl 1
\ The group of hunters
Mat Tobi two
form
de
deer at about .
.
w vs wes us LAVA CAP PLANS
cee’: TUNNEL CENTRAL.
TO BANNER MINE
:and Denzie Rondoni from the Forest
‘ Hill section. To Mr.
One hundred and twenty eight men
are now employed by the Lava Cap:
mine ‘it was learned today, a new
peak in employment for this company. While the ore running $500,
specimens of .which formed part of
Nevada county’s exhibit at the State
. Fair, is found in Ienses,. characteris. tic of this district, Superintendent
Otto E. Schiffner states that he believes the company now has sufficient ore in site to keep the: mill running for a least a year.
Specimens that run high in values
. show around sixty ounces in silver
and five itn gold. Yesterday Mr.
Schiffner exhibited a piece of ore in
A’ representative of the! Which there was a solid chunk of siling Transport Company, MeN
The veim which was first intersectsaid that when completed, the ie on the 1000 foot level’ has been
port with its three way access will be . explored in both upper and lower
‘suitable for the landing of the larger j levels.
The
a party
1
i and
They. always get their
, every. year go for a er hunt;
, the same. place.
A 160 pound four
{brought in by a
Tony Fradelizio,
Fendelizio
WORK AT AIRPORT
BEGINS UNDER SERA
AFTER FIRST RAIN
At their adjourned meeting Thursday night, the Nevada City Chamber
of Commerce acted upon some mat-,
ters of importance to this district.
‘An interesting report of Nevada
. county exhibit at the State Fair was
jmade by W. H. Griffiths. The Ne{vada county ‘exhibit was awarded
five prizes. E. €. Uren announced
£0eS
.
.
.
.
.
immediately after the first rain.
Grading, clearing trees and smoothwho ha
important development
: planned Mr. Schiffner is to folC: Uren were appointed to meet . low this vein by tunnel’ from the
; with the Grass Valley. Chamber. of . Central shaft to the Banner, extract, Commerce to discuss ways to secure ing ore as the work proceeds, and at
budthe same time defining values and
stablishing ore reserves:.
next
R. J. Beanetts, George Calanan and . Dy
Way.
. LEASERS AT WORK ON
. . The mine is now on a self sustain'ihg basis. and’ has definitely passed’
. from a prospective to a productive
status.
The proportion of silver
,found tn Lava Cap ores; according to
ight of the old crew of the Hoge ‘engineers familiar witli this district
mine are to go into the mine as leas-. cstablishes, is without precedent.
They w ily
large
ugh grade milting ore was opened up .
just abeut the time: the mine, was:
closed.
As soon as enough ore is mined it!
will be milled in the Hoge mill. The
mine was closed recently for reorg
HI GRIDDERS TESTED
Cashin’s field was the scene: of
hard-fought grid battle between two
sections of Nevada City high’s
football! players. Coach
plete will recuee again. Barron called this test battle in or. der to find the strength ef the jndi' vidual Geprrued, ne in order to pre, ELKS SOON TO OPEN. ae and ote al
BOWLING TOURNEY sev Stine
It is Re to" 2
anization and as soon as plans are zomdonghty
ive the line-tp
because it changed, The
pat
the games
was frequently
list cf those pDleyed inPick Bennett, B° Sennett,
Yeunkin, Gerald Ralls, Dor
Fan Robbins, Phil Joyal,
Bill Shary:, Art. BlDoolittle, Morvis, Rubs
Tobiassen, Me*i: Coulter,
Crowning, Lacey Jones, Don
Elks
condition
hws alley, is being ;
use and) but
in ‘Octo. (ludes:
Kenneth
a 7 » »
in fer heavy a ( Wid
will begin early :
ber. There were some lively tourna'Wilhans,
oatepnens,
Mervin
is fall) Jim
linet,
INTO FURNACE TO DIE
stevons,* Dick Marriott, Ray Steger,
The Tlack team, on whiehwere
Pasquale Skretti, mill worker
Loyalton logging plant, crawled inInost of lest years varsity mv vn, WoR
§5-0. x
side a blazing FiraDOS in the lumber
mill.
1835 EDITION OF PAPER
anticipated for the
Carl
ina ‘
ersily
Mrs. Leslie Land loanéa the Native Daughters and Sons a four page
four column daily /paper, Morning
Herald, of May 6 1835, making it :
99 years old. is vol. 1, No. 1, and ~
was published by Jas. Gordon Ben*nett and @0., of Wall Street, N, Y. :
made a thorough investigation of the . Advertising rates are $30 per square ©
affair. An inquest was called by the . of 16/lines per year. It carried four
Sierra county coroner and the verdict . colGmns of classified ads. The first
of suicide returned. It was stated ‘article was a Bible sketch of Matthat there were no reasons to sus thew the Phophet; then came Theafoul play in connection with the . trical Chit Chat, Late and Tmportan
death. News of Europe, comment on’
Identification of the remains was
made by Skretti’s shoes, which were
sticking out the door. He was 45
years of age and is survived by
sons.
Sheriff W. B. Johnson and District
Attorney McMahon, of Sierra county,
Lwo
.
.
.
J. A. Casserly, of leghany, who
is visiting at the me of Mrs. A. M.
Lattin in Nevada City is awaiting the
arrival of George Tchernghoneff of
Los Angeles, who is to look over the
Wyoming mine near Alleghany which
quoted in Shillings.
hand set, solid, with smal» !
and no mistakes.
r. and Mrs. Ed Uren.
We iit Mra. Charles G
Sunday at Lake Tahoe. js a property of Mr. Casserly.
f